See! I am back! I wrote two chapters for the opening of the story! I will not babble ok? I will however take my time with chapters 3 & 4. Please know that I can not spell so you will just have to do with my apologies & live with it. *grins* Enjoy!
Oh Joy Of Joys, The Disclaimer: *SJ looks for Jareth* Hehe I OWN IT! I OWN IT ALL!!!!! *laughs insanely* *Nimue shakes her head* SJ does not own the Labyrinth, she only owns this fan fiction and 50 other ideas. SJ does however own the twins, Elsha Maelle Troy, (nicked Elle or Birdie) and me, Maeve Gavenia Troy (nicked Nimue or Eve). I also own anyone else who does not show up in the movie/book!
(This Fan Fiction Has Been Faerie Star Approved) *LOL and then gets hit with a pillow*
The Mystery of
The Songbird and The Hawk
By KittyAngel aka Sasha Jean
Chapter 2: The Center Of The Labyrinth
Nimue stepped into her room, letting the door close on its own. 'Why does Elle always have to hurt me?' Nimue thought as she rubbed at the stinging feeling in her cheek. It would soon disappear leaving no visible mark, just a memory. She smirked at the thought, 'Nothing's wrong physically just mentally!' she giggled in her mind.
Nimue rubbed a hand across her already closed eyes, whipping at the tears. When, suddenly Nimue bumped into something. She was bent over slightly, rubbing her stomach as she groaned softly. Nimue opened her eyes to see a wrinkly face, and a pair of horns. She made a soft high-pitched noise, and straitened. A few goblins stared at the new captor before them.
Nimue blinked at the number of strange beings around her. She turned slowly, looking for the door she new she came through. Her eyes grew worried, as she didn't find it. Instead she saw two entranceways, one with stairs that led up to who knows where. While the other to a long hall witch Nimue saw had many doors on ether side.
Nimue was shoved, and she shrieked. Most of the goblin jumped at the high-pitched noise that came from the girl. She was frightened of the beings. Even more frightening; Nimue knew she was not in her room, or house, probably not even in her own time.
The walls around her looked gray, and the floor looked dirty. Nimue's brows furrowed as she looked at the room. At the dust that had collected here and there, and the stains witch she did not want to know the substances to, that were in the room. 'Elle! Where am I?' she thought, calling to her sister.
She screamed loud and angrily, scaring most of the goblins who new of anger. Nimue stood in the almost empty room. Looking around at the stonewalls of the rounded room. She looked at a round backed chair, that could hold both her, and Elle, and there would still be room to squirm with in it.
Nimue let her eyes gaze at the wall behind the chair; it had a weird thick design of some kind on it. A soft clicking made her turn her head towards a clock with strange hands pointing at some hour. The light from a window not to far from the clock drew her attention. She walked around the pillows laid in the middle of the room, and over to a window, or what looked like one. Nimue eyes grew large as she gazed out at the maze of hages, stone, and forests for at lest two hundred miles. Nimue knew this was not a dream, nor a nightmare.
She slowly sunk to her knee as fresh tears made their way down her cheeks. "Elle!" she whispered her twins nick, and sunk her teeth into her bottom lip. Nimue looked over at the chair, wall that was behind, and the clock. Turning back to the window her hand went to her head and swerved within the braids in her hair.
Nimue furrowed her bows, her eyes and mind searching for a reason why she would dream about beings with horns and being in what looked like a castle. Tears slid down her face when she could not find a reason for dreaming this. Nimue buried her face within her hands and wept, for she new not where she was and was frightened. Both for finding out where she was and for her sister, Elle, who she new was there with her but where?!
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Elle screamed as her world and the reality within it was torn from her, and another world, void of reason and logical expiations, to her, replaced it. As the smoke and glitter blew away going into the air her eyes fell upon her challenge. Elle's eyes grew as she gazed at the huge maze that was spread over the miles beneath her.
The maze was more than she herself expected. It was thousands of passageways going this way and that. It almost took on the look of a brain in places, with the different passages and it was on hills. Stone made up the outer parts while hedge and forest mazes made up some of the inner parts of the huge Labyrinth. The maze its self was not the most interesting thing, although it was interesting. The Labyrinth was positioned on a cliff, like it grew there, it was quit beautiful, or so Nimue, Elle's sister would have thought.
"Wow!" Elle whispered. "How…" she started, leaving the question open, for Jareth new what she wanted to ask.
Jareth smirked at how the girl looked at his creation. He walked up behind Elle, and said softly into her ear. "Hundreds of miles! Time is short child!" Jareth felt Elle jump as his breath grazed her ear.
Jareth walked over to the dieing tree were a clock had appeared. He pointed towards it and said, "You have 13 hours in witch to solve my Labyrinth..." as the clock started ticking he looked towards Elle, hearing a laugh escape her lips. Jareth smirked and continued, "Or else your sister becomes one of us forever, Elsha."
Elle's eyes brows furrowed, as Jareth said the next thing, "Such a pity!" and disappeared as Elle turned to the where Jareth once was. She growled, and crusted for Jareth left her confused witch pissed her off.
Elle gasped as she felt a wave of sadness and confusion sweep over her. Her eyes grew and she turned towards the Labyrinth. "Eve?" Elle whispered her twins' nick, as she felt Nimue, her sister was there, in that world. She ran down the hill with determination. Elle was going to get her sister, Nimue back no matter if it killed her. Nimue was going home or they would both die in this land.
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Nimue sobbed softly into her hands as she felt her twin, Elle, with their strange bond. Something touched her; it was warm, and felt like leather, gliding along her fingers and then Nimue's cheek. She lowered her hands and looked at the tightly covered leather hand. As Nimue lifted her chin her eyes rose slowly. Taking in the stranger before her, his gray leggings, his half buttoned poets shirt, his tight leather vest and his light blond hair.
Jareth offered Nimue a hand, smirking as she took it cautiously. As she stood Jareth looked her over. Nimue was dressed in a lousily fitted midnight blue medieval gown. It was made of velvet trimmed with a braid of grayish greens, and blues. Her shoulders peeked above the dress witch showed off Nimue's elegant neck that had a choker lousily fit around it.
As Nimue's eyes stared into Jareth's, she new what he reminded her of. She could tell whether drunk or not. Nimue looked into his mismatched eyes. 'One a rich brown full of feeling, and the other a cruel cold blue.' she thought, of the line from a book by T. J. Williams. 'Toby's going to freak when I tell him that the King has a hazel eye!' a part of Nimue thought.
Jareth gazed at Nimue as she stared up at him. Nimue's hair was held up with many braids but what Jareth gazed at were her eyes. They were deep brown with shades of grayish greens and blues. They showed every emotion within her at that moment. Anger, and sorrow, jealousy, and confusion. Also fear, but what was she afraid of? Was it him, or the fact that she was ripped away from her world?
Jareth's glove-clad hand came up to whip at Nimue's tear-covered cheek. Nimue moved away from Jareth, leaving her thoughts behind, Nimue's eyes changed as she put up her defenses. Taking to steps back and colliding into the wall, Nimue winched.
Jareth lifted a brow, 'I suppose both!' he thought, "Maeve!" Jareth questioned seeing if this was the child. He smirked as Nimue's eyes grew slightly.
Nimue glared at him and that cocky smirk. 'I hate my name!' she thought, and then blinked a couple of times. Nimue's drinking was catching up to her after all she had been up since early yesterday morning. As Nimue's vision failed, and dizziness overwhelmed her since of balance she cursed her sister, Elle.
Jareth's arms where around Nimue as she fell. Nimue whispered Jareth's name as she passed out in his arms. Jareth sighed, as he smelled the distinct sent of alcohol on her. 'Well, at lest the child will not be afeard of me when she awakens!' Jareth thought, and sighed as he lifted Nimue's legs in his other arm. 'Or will she?', Jareth asked himself as he transported them to the child's room.
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Elle raced closer to the entrance to the maze. All the while holding part of her gown. Her hair curled within the wind like an untamed beast. Elle's hair swerved and swayed against her back as she came to a stop at the bottom of the large hill. Elle was taken aback by the huge scale of the outer walls of the maze.
Grown over with half dead ivy of some nature, the walls where tall but not overly tall. Graying but what did not look a little gray out here. Elle shook her head, "No time!" she whispered, more to herself. She gasped as something that moved caught her eye. White haired fairies flew around half dead bushes, and more around an old rusted fountain. There where black glittering trees around and tall brown grass. She notes utensils that looked like gardening tools.
Elle raked a hand through her long curly hair as she saw a small being. Not more than three feet tall, possibly three foot two. He had wild blond hair and pale skin. He was doing something to the faeries. Elle cleared her through as a puff smoke came from some peculiar gadget. As he turned and blinked at her a gasp came from the faerie and it fell.
Elle gasped as her hands went to her mouth, and her skirt fell against her legs. "What the hell are you doing?" she yelled at him as he glared at her.
"I'm creatin' the death o' the fairies! What do ye thin'?" he said, and then turned from Elle. He walked a little further along the wall and sprayed another faerie.
Elle's brows furrowed, 'If this is Hoggle, he's sure is a stubborn little joker!' she thought. "Hoggle?" Elle asked, with a questioning look.
He snorted as he turned; looking Elle over, he noticed she had lighter brown hair then the captor. "So you be the new challenger?" he asked the air and snorted again. "Ye sure are stupider than the others!" he whispered, and went back to what he was doing.
Elle glared at him as he sprayed another faerie. She rested her hands on her hips and looked around. "Well you're on a one way ticket to the bog if you talk like that to Jareth!" Elle whispered.
He snorted, "When I got this here job. 'Twas the only time Jareth saw me!" he told Elle.
"Oh!" Elle stated, and looked at the wall that clearly was part of the maze. "So!" Elle stared and crossed her arms over her petit chest, "Where's the door?" she asked.
"What door?" he asked as the contraption that he was spraying the poor faerie stopped working.
Elle ignored what he was doing, and said, "The door!"
He cursed and messed with the contraption. "To what?" he asked.
Elle sighed, "The door to the maze?" she pointed towards the wall.
"Bloody thin'! What maze?" he asked getting flustered at the contraption.
She growled, walking over to the furious goblin, Elle grabbed the contraption. He glared at Elle as she knelt down and knocked it against the ground. A puff of white smoke came from it, and Elle waved her hand in front of her face. "Happy now?" she asked offering it back to the goblin.
He snatched it from her and glared, "No!" he said. As Elle stood she brushed off her silk skirt, and cleared her through. A scruffy eyebrow lifted on his face as he asked, "What?"
Elle sighed and shook her head. "How the hell am I supposed to get through the maze if I don't know how to get into it first?" she asked the air.
The goblin shrugged and snorted. "Try askin' the right questions first!" he said.
Elle sighed, 'Probably he's right!' she thought. "How do I enter into the...." she stared as he turned and lifted a brow. Elle thought over the word, 'The maze! I know its called something else!' Elle eyes shined as she grabbed the right word. She smiled down at him, and asked, "How do I enter into the Labyrinth?"
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